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By Kesava Krsna Dasa

Have we ever thought of sitting Krishna on a diamond throne within our hearts as we chant japa? This thought probably never occurred to us in the first place. Would anyone say we’re not allowed to do this? We have to keep focus on Nama through sound, but how will the mind be engaged while wondering?

If we are taught to focus on the sound vibration during japa, what if the mind wanders, or thinks of something Krishna conscious, or visualises Krishna conscious images? Should

By Vishakha Devi Dasi

The luxurious growth of one of Krishna’s greatest devotees, who appears in a special form, attests to the devotion of two of her dedicated caretakers.

Srila Prabhupada once quoted an atheist as saying, “What is the use of watering the Tulasi plant? It is better to water eggplant. By watering the eggplant one can get some fruits, but what is the use of watering the Tulasi?”

Rudrani Devi Dasi, one of Tulasi’s caretakers at ISKCON Vancouver, responds to this challenge.

“Tula

Srutakirti dasa, Srila Prabhupada Remembers His Youth

Sometimes Srila Prabhupada affectionately spoke about his father. When he did, it was always with great fondness.

“My father would make sure that whatever I wanted I would get,” he said.

“Even if it was in the middle of the night and I wanted puris, my father would say to my mother, ‘Make him puris if he wants puris.’ Sometimes my mother would resist, but my father would make her do it. It was like that. I don’t know. Maybe my father knew. H

Gardabharomagaṇana nyāyaḥ (counting fur of donkey)

A man, out of sheer curiosity, counts the hairs on the body of the donkey.

A man may count all the hairs on animal body, all the send grains in the beach or all the atoms in the creation, still it does not move him an inch further. Yet, this is passing as education and science. Innocent children are drilled in the school to parrot mainly grammatical rules and mathematical formulas, just to forget them as soon as they leave school premises, instead

By HH Satsvarupa dasa Goswami

When His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada frst arrived in America in the midst ol the cultural turmoil of the sixties, he quickly captured the hearts and minds of the New York hippies and the San Francisco flower children with the chanting of the Hare Krsna mantra.
Within three years, he journeyed to London, and by 1971, Hare Krsna had been recorded on hit records by former Beatles John Lennon and George Harrison. By then the mantra had been heard b

From CHANT AND BE HAPPY – THE POWER OF MANTRA MEDITATION

It’s a scene that has been repeated countless times on the thoroughfares of cities throughout the Western world-from Hollywood Boulevard and Fifth Avenue in America, to London’s Oxford Street and the Champs Elysees in Paris. There, in the midst of traffic, shops, restaurants, and movie theaters, people suddenly find themselves confronted by a group of young persons singing and dancing to the beat of cylindrical drums and the brassy cadenc

By Mani Manjari Devi Dasi

Paechter (1999) explains that there are two types of curriculums or ways in which teachers transmitted their own views and values to students: the intended hidden curriculum and the unintended hidden curriculum. In the intended hidden curriculum, the teachers are aware of the views and values they are given to their students. In the unintended hidden curriculum teachers are not aware of the views and values they are given to their students; since those views and valu

By Parasuram das

1990 was the first Trip to Tipp, it was also the year that Nelson Mandela was released from prison, Germany was re-unified after the fall of the Berlin Wall and, away from the headlines, a computer nerd called Tim Berners-Lee was registering something called the World Wide Web. I was oblivious to all of this, I was busy chasing horses, tents and carts in an attempt to walk from Belfast to Moscow, the first traditional Padayatra outside of India in an attempt to celebrate Srila

हरे  कृष्ण !

त्वया उप्भुक्त सक्र गंध वास: अलंकार चर्चिता ।

उच्छिष्ट भोजिन: दासा: तव मायाम जयेम हि ॥ 

श्री उद्धव ने कहा –

“ हे भगवन् ! आपके द्वारा  भोगी गई मालाओं, सुगंधित तेलों, वस्त्रों तथा गहनों से अपने को सजाकर तथा आपकी जूठन खाने वाले हम आपके दास निश्चय ही आपकी माया को जीत सकेंगे ।“

यदि आपकी माया हम पर आक्रमण करे भी तो हे प्रभु ! हम उसे अपने शक्तिशाली हथियारों से आसानी से जीत लेंगे । ये हथियार हैं आपका जूठन, वस्त्र, गहने आदि । दूसरे शब्दों में, हम कृष्‍ण – प्रसादम से माया के उपर आसानी से विजय पा

Celebrating Srila Prabhupada’s 54th arrival anniversary to the United States with great news!!
On August 28th 2019, Prabhupada’s Palace of Gold was officially listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the West Virginia State Historic Preservation Society, the Department of the Interior, and the National Park Service. During the upcoming weekend, Sept 27 – 29, we will dedicate a bronze plaque to commemorate these momentous occasions.

Source: http://www.dandavats.com/?p=78627

On the occasion of World Holy Name Festival, ISKCON Rohini organized an Interfaith dialogue on Glories of Holy Names on 23rd Sept 2019.

For Immediate Release

The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is celebrating its annual Mega Youth Fest ‘UDGAAR – An Expression of Goodness and Joy’, on October 6th at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi. The theme for this festival is ‘Anti-Addiction: Making India Addiction Free’. The new world record for “ Largest Drug Awareness Lesson” will be established at the festival which will be delivered by Dr. Vivek Bindra, famous motivational speaker and Business Coach. T

Traditions across the world have stories similar to the Western classic about Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde. In such stories, the same person acts sometimes like a principled, selfless benefactor and sometimes like an opportunistic, self-centered malefactor.

And similar is our own story too. What makes us behave like this? Our mind, or more precisely, the way we respond to our mind. Our mind reacts impulsively to external perceptions and internal recollections; it becomes infatuated with some things and

In our times, equality is considered one of the most cherished values. Few things provoke as much indignation as incidents of discrimination – or even allegations of discrimination. Such outrage is healthy, for it helps create a world where everyone has equal opportunities.
Still, what is the basis for our longing for equality? Intuition, we might say – we innately feel that everyone should be treated equally. Yes, but what is the basis of that intuition? In other words, what is the worldview t